Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 5hPublishers love a queer success story. Who pays for the years before it becomes one? My BookBrunch piece on indie authors footing the bill, and Queer the Shelves trying to change that. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... 020
Reposted by Mo FanningMo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/09/2026Check out Queer the Shelves by Nicci Robinson & Vic Villasenor on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...kickstarter.comQueer the ShelvesThe LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution. 001
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/09/2026Check out Queer the Shelves by Nicci Robinson & Vic Villasenor on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...kickstarter.comQueer the ShelvesThe LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution. 001
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026This is just too much pressure for me. I'm going to end up with six bottles of vodka and 300 toilet rolls on 23 December, aren't I? 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026I've spent years typing "gay novel funny nobody dies" into search bars. Queer the Shelves Infinite is a reading app where every book is queer, so the search bar can stop guessing. Kickstarter opens Tuesday 29 Sept. www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...kickstarter.comComing soon: Queer the ShelvesThe LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution. 000
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 17/09/2026I'm meeting her for tea and scones on Tuesday to discuss a small endorsement fee. Feel certain this can't be a scam. Not like the whole Wilbur Smith debacle. Egg on my face there. 010
Reposted by Mo FanningNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry. 343108784
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/09/2026Bag of wet concrete in one corner, leftover builder's chip wrappers in the other? 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 06/09/2026When people ask why the general mood is so low in the UK, why not take a look at our press who love cheery tales like this www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...independent.co.ukAll the ways Putin could attack UK with devastating consequencesAs Europe directly calls Russia out over an attempted drone attack on a German airport, defence expert Francis Tusa explains how a Russian hybrid warfare campaign could easily cause widespread disrupt... 110
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 02/09/2026In UK politics, a 62-year-old former commodities trader who joined the Conservative Party in 1978 considers himself a 'new kid on the block'. 110
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026This headline alone sums up the insanity we're allowing www.ibtimes.co.uk/mitch-mcconn...ibtimes.co.ukExperts Warn Sen McConnell 'May Be Dead' or Incapacitated After Staff Stop Giving Public Updates on His ConditionMitch McConnell's extended absence from public view has led to speculation about his health, despite confirmation from his office that he is recovering at home after a fall and mild pneumonia. 110
Reposted by Mo FanningRob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy. 26035401066
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026I rather suspect the plan is to have moved into his Moscow-sponsored dacha by the time justice comes calling. 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: I have an idea 15K: The idea has legs 30K: Not the legs I thought, but still... 50K: Many darlings to kill, maybe kill it all and be done 75K: Surely to God, it should be done soon 90K: I can edit it down later 100K: What in all holy fuck was I thinking? 021
Reposted by Mo FanningArbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you 371390472
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/08/2026Brilliant #writing tip from Libby Page over at The Novelry. When #editing, ask yourself: What is this scene doing that no other scene in the story is doing? Helps kill darlings. 041
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 26/08/2026A car with electric windows A real effect electric fire A static caravan Pate A set of matching crockery 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 11/08/2026This is my longest standing 'hot take'. Kids need to learn to be bored. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/k...independent.co.ukWhy I’m making sure my kids are bored this summer holidayThe school break can be a challenge, with new research showing kids would rather stare at a screen than get creative when looking for fun. But we shouldn’t be trying to fix boredom, says mum of two Ch... 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 10/08/2026Just had an email. From Fredrik Backman. "As an author myself, I have genuine respect for the challenge of balancing comedy, suspense, romance, and character development without allowing one element to overwhelm the others." He's not wrong. He's also not Fredrik Backman. #AuthorScam #Publishing 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026Last chance: 99p until midnight. Lisa invented a fiancé to prove she was absolutely fine. Unfortunately, she gave him the same name as her very married boss. A sharp British romcom about friendship, pressure and pretending everything’s fine. www.amazon.co.uk/Lisa-Doyle-A... #RomCom #BookSky 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026This is why we don't deserve nice things - and why there simply has to be an asteroid heading our way any minute. 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026Ask me whose husband referred to his collection of cables and wires as 'neurotic and shameful'. Then ask me whose husband is eating his words now he can recharge his strimmer. 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026I had to hunt it down too. And there was a time when I knew what 'bubbling under' meant in Record Mirror. 100
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 03/08/2026Everyone else seems settled. Lisa Doyle is 32 and absolutely fine. Fine enough to invent a fiancé, hire an actor to play him and continue lying until a wedding threatens to expose everything. 99p this week ONLY. books2read.com/absolutely 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/08/2026She invented a fiancé. Then gave him her married boss’s name. At that point, honesty would have been sensible. Lisa Doyle chooses prosthetics, an actor flatmate and a fake wedding instead. Lisa Doyle Is Absolutely Fine is 99p this week. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #BookSky 040
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 30/07/2026My Blackbird Static chums are back with four new songs of summer... open.spotify.com/album/4qGQkp... 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026"I prefer talking to an AI chatbot about a problem with my gas bill or supply" is a sentence uttered by precisely no fucker ever. 071
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026Today’s writing: 43 minutes identifying one tree on one street in Kings Heath. It appears for half a sentence, near where police pin up a Missing Person poster. Nobody notices when details are right. Someone always notices when they’re wrong. #AmWriting #HumanWritten 030
Reposted by Mo FanningMo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/06/2026It's here if you feel like a read to distract from all this hot weather thebooklist.co/books/lisa-d...thebooklist.coLisa Doyle is Absolutely FineWarm, funny and relatable, Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine is a sharply observed romantic comedy about pressure, pretence and what happens if the act slips. 0131
Reposted by Mo FanningDebra Derr @nyghtbyrd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Truly awful that this loathsome individual was re elected to the presidency as a felon, and is now an adjudicated rapist who has finally paid his court ordered penalty for defaming the woman he raped. How much lower can we fall? 46684083006
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 14/07/2026It's a lovely sunny day People everywhere are getting new moles to worry over 011
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/07/2026🔥 SALE! "Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine" is £4.99 for a limited time. Lisa Doyle is absolutely fine. Grab your copy: books2read.com/absolutely #Romance #RomanceBooks #RomanceReads #BookBoyfriend 010
Reposted by Mo FanningRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works. 321124714011
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 04/07/2026Staying in a schmanzy hotel, and I’m just going to say it. I don’t hold with the whole bathtub in the bedroom thing 120
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026New on Substack: The book launch hangover. Three weeks after publication, the adrenaline has gone and the wall has arrived. A piece about indie author burnout, ignored pitches, tiny wins, good people, and knowing when to stop. open.substack.com/pub/mofannin...open.substack.comThe book launch hangoverThree weeks on - I've hit a wall 030
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026Interesting to watch - because cancer never does truly leave you - even six years on, I still know it was there. Even if it's gone for now, it was there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukLauren Laverne: 'Cancer never leaves you'Lauren Laverne talks about going through cancer treatment and the effect it’s had on their lives. 251
Reposted by Mo FanningLeft on the Shelf Book Blog @leftontheshelf1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026On the blog today is my book list of the books I have read in June 💙📚 #authors @ajjacobs.bsky.social @ruebaldry.bsky.social @mofanning.co.uk @callistolodwick.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.socialleftontheshelfbookblog.blogspot.comBooks I Read in June 2026Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction 1115
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026Every author has been told to “build a platform”. In BookBrunch today - why the phrase has become lazy publishing shorthand, and what authors need instead: clearer reader routes, better promises, and less panic. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthorsbookbrunch.co.ukFree Article 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026It really is such a loveybook. If you ever get chance to listen to the audiobook with Penelope Keith and Russell Tovey, that's excellent. 000
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/06/2026Mid-eyebrow zit popped up overnight. About to moderate a panel at a sold-out lit festival . Temptation to pick, pop and turn into a weeping sore is huge. Luckily, slap saving the day. Tell me I look literary... please 010
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 26/06/2026It's that 'day before a literary festival' thing again. The one where all I want to do is vomit and lock myself in the bathroom until it's all over. Onwards. 020
Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/06/2026Another gorgeous review for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, this time from Bekky Clarke. A one-sitting summer read is exactly the sort of thing Lisa would pretend not to care about, while absolutely caring. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview 030